Tech, Bureaucrats, emailconfirmed, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, threadmoderator
115,635
edits
Darkness: Difference between revisions
From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
According to [[Joseph Holman]], [[human]]ity by its nature avoided darkness, and craved the light. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'') Indeed, not just humans but almost every species in the [[universe]]<!--, according to the [[Tenth Doctor]],--> had an irrational [[fear]] of the dark. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') This was a primal fear, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') associated with [[childhood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'') | According to [[Joseph Holman]], [[human]]ity by its nature avoided darkness, and craved the light. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'') Indeed, not just humans but almost every species in the [[universe]]<!--, according to the [[Tenth Doctor]],--> had an irrational [[fear]] of the dark. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') This was a primal fear, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') associated with [[childhood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'') | ||
According to [[Owen Harper]], who had experienced [[death]], after life there was only darkness. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Day in the Death (TV story)|A Day in the Death]]'') | |||
While darkness generally impaired [[vision]], some people, with an ability for [[night vision]], could see well in the dark. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'', ''[[Tragedy Day (novel)|Tragedy Day]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'') Humans could [[evolve]] larger [[eye]]s to accommodate for complete lack of light, as they did once on a [[planet (White Ghosts)|planet]] given light only once every thousand years. [[Plant]]life on this planet also developed to grow rapidly, through [[photosynthesis]], during this brief span of [[sunlight]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[White Ghosts (audio story)|White Ghosts]]'') [[Gallifreyan]]s could also see far better in the dark than [[human]]s could. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') | While darkness generally impaired [[vision]], some people, with an ability for [[night vision]], could see well in the dark. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'', ''[[Tragedy Day (novel)|Tragedy Day]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'') Humans could [[evolve]] larger [[eye]]s to accommodate for complete lack of light, as they did once on a [[planet (White Ghosts)|planet]] given light only once every thousand years. [[Plant]]life on this planet also developed to grow rapidly, through [[photosynthesis]], during this brief span of [[sunlight]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[White Ghosts (audio story)|White Ghosts]]'') [[Gallifreyan]]s could also see far better in the dark than [[human]]s could. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') | ||
